“scraped” is a form of
scrape
/skɹeɪp/ verb, noun
Forms scrapes scraping scraped
- verb (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure. “She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.”
- verb (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner. “Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.”
- verb (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface. “She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.”
- verb (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain. “I scraped a pass in the exam.”
- verb (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen. “Just use whatever you can scrape together.”
- verb (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page. “They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.”
- verb (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously. “He scraped and saved until he became rich.”
- verb (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument. “Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.”
- noun A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). “He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.”
- noun The sound or action of something being scraped.
- noun Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- noun (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. “He got in a scrape with the school bully.”
- noun An awkward set of circumstances. “I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.”
- noun (UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- noun A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- noun (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
Synonyms
scuff grate scratch compare drag abrade chafe graze labor squeeze limp squeak abrasion scraping altercation brawl fistfight fight fisticuffs punch-up scuffle scratching excoriation scar mark scratch up kowtow genuflect scrape up come up skin
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Etymology
From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
- verb To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
- verb To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
- verb To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich. "[Spend] their scraping fathers' gold." Shak.
Etymology [Icel. skrapa; akin to Sw. skrapa, Dan. skrabe, D. schrapen, schrabben, G. schrappen, and prob. to E. sharp.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scrape”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details